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Professor Al Montero, Frank B. Kellogg Professor of Political Science, interviewed for El Salto newspaper Outside link
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A project that started out as a class research experience in POSC 226 (Political Psychology) taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Melanie Freeze has recently been published in the one of the leading journals of political behavior. While all POSC 226 students were involved in the study design and implementation, six students (and now Carleton alumni), Mary Baumgartner, Peter Bruno, Jacob R. Gunderson, Joshua Olin, Morgan Quinn Ross, and Justine Szafran, provided valuable contributions as co-authors for the resulting article that was written and subjected to a great deal of revision in the post-class period.
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POSC 100, 205/305 and 223 Podcasts
18 November 2019Professor Barbara Allen’s POSC 100 (Governing with the News), POSC 205/305 (News Media & Democratic Electoral Processes) and POSC 223 (Lab in Electoral Politics) classes have embarked on an original…
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The 2019 UK Political Study Association American Politics Group Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize was recently awarded to Barbara Allen and Daniel Stevens for their book Trust in Advertising: Lies in Political Advertising and How They Affect the Electorate (Lexington Books).
The prize is supported by the University of Cambridge Mellon Fund and will be formally awarded at the annual APG Colloquium on November 8, 2019 at the British Library, London, by Baroness Shirley Williams (Harvard Kennedy School). The APG Colloquium is supported by the Eccles Centre and the British Association of American Studies.
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Associate Professor Tun Myint speaks at Twin Cities Breakfast Club
4 November 2019Associate Professor of Political Science Tun Myint gave an invited talk on whether the Eurocentric view of science is hindering local-global actions in addressing environmental changes and climate change, to alums on October 10, 2019 as part of the Twin Cities Breakfast Club series. The Twin Cities Breakfast Club meets monthly and is sponsored by the Twin Cities Alumni Club and hosted by Marion Slocum ‘81.
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Assistant Professor Summer Forester’s article published in Security Dialogue
4 November 2019Assistant Professor of Political Science Summer Forester published an article, “Protecting women, protecting the state: Militarism, security threats, and government action on violence against women in Jordan,” in Security Dialogue.
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Associate Professor Tun Myint interviewed on One News Myanmar
12 September 2019Professor Tun Myint, due to his research on the social and ecological diversity of Myanmar, is asked about rural, agricultural and ecological changes in Myanmar and their impact on political, economic, and ecological transitions in the country.
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Newsletter Summer 2019
3 September 2019Read the 2019 Summer Newsletter.
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Rohan Mukherjee ’19, a political science/international relations major from Hoboken, New Jersey, talks about his senior capstone experience, a paper titled “A New Enlightenment and the Rebirth of a National Identity: Romania’s Pursuit of Authentic Modernity.”
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Political Science majors Leah Greenberg ’08 and Ezra Levin ’07 made the list for their work on Indivisible, a hyperlocal community organizing movement.